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Start your Christmas with ecological awareness in the Amecameca Pine Forest

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More than two million four hundred and fifty thousand pine trees are on the slopes of Popocatépetl.

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Enjoying a beautiful natural Christmas tree can be not only a reason for joy for the gifts that it shelters under its bouquets, it can be the ideal occasion to share an ecological conscience with your family.

This natural nursery, one of the largest in the world, opens its doors this weekend for you to choose your own Christmas tree, but keeping its roots and trunk for the sustainability of the forest.

More than two million 450 thousand pine trees are on the slopes of the Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes, surrounded by an exuberant fauna where you can take your children not only to choose their own tree, but to share with red deer, imported from New Zealand, llamas , ponies, ostriches, piglets, miniature goats, ducks, squirrels, rabbits and birds of many species. In the forest reserve you can even see the national bird of Mexico, the Royal Eagle; Or maybe spot a volcano rabbit or teporingo.

This park was founded in 1960 by Ernesto Maurer, who took on the task of turning an arid place into a spectacular forest. It is also a source of employment, not only for those who plant it, but for all those who take care of the forest.

You can visit here the National Center for Environmental Education, which promotes reforestation and offers tours to students, who receive instructions on how to plant their trees and are presented with a live pine tree and White Cedar seeds.

At the end of Christmas it is important that you consider returning to nature the resources that we extract from it. That is why there are different conservation plans in Mexico City with multiple collection centers for recycling used natural Christmas trees. They are converted into composed that our fields require so much in order not to wear down the soils, in a kind of circular economy.

Start your Christmas in Amecameca with the purchase of natural Christmas pine trees. Tree by tree we are creating not only a beautiful Christmas to remember, but we stimulate in our children from an early age an ecological conscience for life.

The creation of natural lungs close to cities as a way to filter the polluted air It is a priority for the sustainable development of neighboring communities, of the cities themselves, and to prevent environmental degradation by extracting resources without returning the same amount or more than what we take out.

Do you want to know more about how to get there? Visit the Christmas forest.

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Activities available at The Amecameca Pine Forest to celebrate Christmas in an ecological way include nature walks, hiking, camping, reforestation activities, participating in environmental awareness workshops, and enjoying the natural beauty of the pine forest. Read more here: https://www.equilibriumx.com/ecoturismo-y-conservacion/comienza-tu-navidad-con-consciencia-ecologica-en-el-bosque-de-pinos-de-amecameca
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Last modified: March 21, 2024